More than 50 lives. Almost 2,000 buildings. In moments, well talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the Senior National correspondent William Lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. William. Reporter trace, were in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the Police Roadblock is and the check point. People cant get into lahina because theyre still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but thats supposed to be illegal. We heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. One thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldnt get out in time. They couldnt even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. Traffic was backed up. People literally died in their cars. Now, lahina is of course the hardest hit
Good morning. We are 13 miles away from the town of lahaina. Next to a road block. Seeing heart breaking scenes of folks come out. Pleading with officers, wanting to be let in because they lost their friends and Family Members residents arent going to be let in for some time now. This is still an active Search And Rescue scene. They are still trying to get people out, busing people out of the Evacuation Zone this as the death toll unfortunately continues to climb. 55 people at least confirmed dead at this time. Several fires burning on the island of maui since tuesday. None of them yet fully contained by officials here. Yet unknown how they started. Most destructive on mauis west side ripped through the community of lahaina driven by fierce winds High Pressure to the north and Hurricane Dora as it passed hundreds of miles to the south. According to hawaiis governor the fire destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in lahaina and destroyed the towns ban i dont know tree the peaceful Island P
Time time time time time greg yeah. Did you ever wonder how local news becomes national . It napped montgomery, alabama. A cityowned river boat tried to dock in its designated spot along the water front but a pontoon boat was mored there they asked the pontoon owner to move but when they were asked to move the owners were happy about it at all and then this happened. Mind you what youre about to see is disturbing. So if you have children in the room, punch them hard in the face as a diversion. Get out the way [screaming and yelling] greg well, thats disgusting. Appalling. And when im disgusted and appalled, i need to see more. Oh, new angle. Check the two guys in the water, make sure nobody drowns. Hey, hey, hey oh, my god that hurts. And then more people jumped in to defend the guy and it turned into quite the melee or what the irish call, friday night. But its what the rest of us might call just plain good tv which explains how this quickly went from a local story to a national one.
[cheers and applause] greg thats all me thats my fault. My fault. All right, all right, all right. Happy wednesday, everybody. Tomorrow, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump head to the texas border to duke it out on americas current migrant crisis. The sad part is only one of them will know where he is. [laughter] the other will think hes on a beach in delaware during cinco de mayo. For bidens part, this is only the second time hes been to the border during his presidency. The other time it was to pick up a package for hunter marked baby powder. [laughter] of course trump has been to the border numerous times, and its obvious why hes been talking about it for years. It just took forever for everyone else to catch up. The truth is that trump, that terrible knuckledragging vulgarian who they love to hate, shows he knows the pulse of america better than his opponent, who may not have a pulse himself. I know. Too far or not far enough . Sure, trump is a billionaire,
Hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people and they never once spoke about business dealings, it was casual conversation, nicety, the weather. Laura like susan rice was during benghazi. You cant prove he helped hunters clients. They think you are this stupid. Their new pitch that bidenomics is working. Did you see this today . Biden overall approval overtime low on the economy, just 34 . Americans are not stupid. Facts are stubborn things. Most americans are getting poorer, the bidens keep getting richer and evidence about hunter pointed to unmistakable conclusion issue the biden family acted like the u. S. Government was for sale. Hunter old pal and Business Partner devin archer testified on capitol hill today and confirmed what we expected before, joe biden lied when he said he didnt know anything about his sons business. When vp, joe biden was put on phone calls with clients, not to discuss the weather, to reassure the clients the big guy was on